germanics

Updated: June 12, 2025

In case of a civil war, the Habsburgs might reasonably expect to find enemies in Denmark, Sweden, and France. The war naturally divides itself into four periods: The Bohemian Revolt; The Danish Period; The Swedish Period; The French or International Period. The signal for the outbreak of hostilities in the Germanics was given by a rebellion in Bohemia against the Habsburgs.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

Then on the left you have all the Germanics, a great sea of confused and dreaming people, lost in philosophies and creating music, frozen for the moment under a foreign rigidity, but some day to thaw again and to give a word to us others. They cannot long remain apart from visions. Then in front of you southward and eastward, if you are marching to Rome, come the Highlanders.

Hilaire Belloc - The Path to Rome

It must be remembered that the Germanics were at that time used as a sort of breeding-ground for princes. There is a strange process in history by which things that decay turn into the very opposite of themselves. Thus in England Puritanism began as the hardest of creeds, but has ended as the softest; soft-hearted and not unfrequently soft-headed.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Crimes of England

And so long as the ill-disciplined remnants of Frederick's armies were behaving like highwaymen, pillaging and burning throughout the Germanics, the emperor declined to consider the grant of any concessions. Danish Intervention.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

Here they imbibed the political ideas of the Grand Monarch, and in a short time nearly every petty court in the Germanics was a small-sized reproduction of the court of Versailles.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

And the bulk of the burden ultimately rested upon the backs of the people. At least in the Germanics the idea became very prevalent that the pope and Curia were really robbing honest German Christians for the benefit of scandalously immoral Italians. There were certainly grave financial abuses in church government in the fifteenth century and in the early part of the sixteenth.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

At the opening of the sixteenth century, many bishops and abbots in wealth and power were not unlike great lay lords: they held vast fair dominions in the Germanics a third of the whole country, in France a fifth, etc. and they were attended by armies of retainers. Most of them were sons of noblemen who had had them consecrated bishops so as to insure them fine positions.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

What immorality and worldliness prevailed at Rome was reflected in the lives of many lesser churchmen. To one of the popes of the fifteenth century, a distinguished cardinal represented the disorders of the clergy, especially in the Germanics.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

The early printers fashioned the characters of their type after the letters that the scribes had used in long-hand writing. Different kinds of common hand-writing gave rise, therefore, to such varieties of type as the heavy black-faced Gothic that prevailed in the Germanics or the several adaptations of the clear, neat Roman characters which predominated in southern Europe and in England.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.